Curriculum Vitae
Barbara Miller
June 2015 - 2016
Office1957 E Street NW, Suite 501
The Elliott School of International Affairs
The George Washington University
Washington, DC 20052
tel. 202/994-7257
Education
1966-1971 Syracuse University, BA
1969-1970Banaras Hindu University, India (University of Wisconsin College Year in India Program)
1972-1978Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs, Department of Anthropology, Syracuse University MA 1974; PhD with Distinction 1978
Fellowships, Grants and Contracts (Postdoctoral)
1983Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research, Grant #4454 ($5000)
1984Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research, Grant #4454 (addon, $5000)
1985Smithsonian Institution, Travel Grant, for Sixteen American Scholars to attend the Conference on Women and the Household, New Delhi ($15,000).
1985-86Agency for International Development, Kingston, Research Contract for Household Expenditure Survey II ($140,000)
1986Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research, Inc., Conference Grant #103 for an
International Conference on Sex and Gender Hierarchies, Malaga, Spain
1987-1988National Science Foundation, Research Grant #BNS 8616762 ($63,000)
1992University of Pittsburgh Center for International Studies and Asian Studies Program, Small Grant for Research in India ($5,000)
2012-2015Key faculty expert and proposal initiator; Women and Water in Central and South Asia, U.S. Department of State, South Asia Bureau, Professor Marlene Laruelle, PI; and Ariana Rabindranath, co-PI, of the Elliott School. Ongoing. ($300,000).
2014-2016PI, Women’s Empowerment in Pakistan through a University Partnership, U.S. Department of State; with Professor Shaista Khilji, co-PI. Ongoing ($1,007,438), ongoing likely through 2017 via a no-cost extension.
Recent Proposals Submitted (not awarded)
2004 Toward a Culture-Centered Approach to Post-Conflict Reconstruction in Afghanistan (with Professors Inder Sud and David Gow) to the National Science Foundation’s Program in Human Social Dynamics, for $180,000 to support a workshop series and conference.
2006Religion in International Affairs (with Professor Deborah Avant) to the Luce Foundationfor $400,000to develop a focus in theElliott School on religion and international affairs
2011“Community Network for Freedom” (with Professor Andrea Bertone) to the US Department of Health and Human Services in January; $900,000 over three years [approved; but not funded due to budget cuts]..
“Role of Public-Private Partnership (PPP) in Reducing Maternal Mortality in Gujarat, India, to the NIH in February; $151,111 for two years [funding program discontinued during the review process due to budget cuts].
“Innovative Public-Private Partnership to Reduce Maternal and Neonatal Mortality in Gujarat, India” to the Gates Foundation/USAID Saving Lives at Birth; $250,000 over two years.
2012PI, Conflict Prevention in the Asia-Pacific Region: Including Women in Sustainable Security and Democracy, U.S. Department of Defense, pre-proposal; $1.2 million [full proposal not invited].
Fellowships and Grants (Predoctoral)
1968NDEA Title VI, Hindi, University of Pennsylvania (summer)
1969NDEA Title VI, Hindi, University of Minnesota (summer)
1972-1974NDEA Title VI, Hindi, Syracuse University
1975-1976NDEA Title VI, Hindi, Syracuse University
1976Woodrow Wilson Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship in Women's Studies
1976-1977American Institute of Indian Studies Language Fellowship, Hindi
1977-1978Rockefeller-Ford Program on Population and Development Policy, Grant RF#76102 (for doctoral dissertation)
Teaching Awards
2008Harry Harding Teaching Award, Elliott School of International Affairs
Field Research
1976-1977India, archival and interview research for dissertation while living in Agra and Delhi on a Hindi language training fellowship (during the Indian Emergency, field research permits for Americans were highly restricted)
1981-1983Bangladesh, local government structure and finance, for the Zilla Roads Maintenance and Improvement Project, AID/Dhaka
1983[Project Director] India, standardizing community health program collections of longitudinal data on sex-differential mortality of children at Ludhiana and Vellore Christian Medical Hospitals
1983-1984Jamaica, low-income household expenditure survey, for the Jamaican Tax Structure Examination Project, AID/Kingston; in collaboration with Professor Carl Stone, University of the West Indies
1985-1986[Project Director] Jamaica, effects of the food stamp program on low-income household expenditures, for AID/Kingston; with Professor Carl Stone, University of the West Indies
1986[Advisor] India, study design of child health patterns in Varanasi and the role of a community health program in improving child survival; in collaboration with Dr. K.N. Agarwal, Epidemiology Unit, Banaras Hindu University
1987-1988[Principal Investigator] social class variations in gender-specific juvenile mortality in India; carried out at the Department of Demography, University of California at Berkeley
1991-1994Pittsburgh, adolescent identity formation among Indian Hindu immigrants
1992India, assessment of current status of research on female child health; New Delhi and Pune, May
1996-1997India, feasibility of long-term research in the Andaman Islands, December-January
Positions
1979Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of Anthropology, University of Rochester
1979-1980Instructor, Department of Anthropology, Syracuse University
1980-1987Research Associate, Metropolitan Studies Program, Maxwell School, and (1984-1987) Adjunct Associate Professor, Department of Anthropology, Syracuse University
1987-1988Associate Research Demographer, University of California at Berkeley
1988-1989Instructor, Department of Sociology and Anthropology, SUNY Cortland
1988-1990Visiting Fellow and Lecturer, Population and Development Program and Department of Rural Sociology, Cornell University
1989-1990Instructor, Department of Anthropology, Ithaca College
1990-1993 Assistant Professor, Department of Anthropology, University of Pittsburgh
1993-1998Associate Professor of Anthropology and International Affairs, George Washington University
1994-1998and(1994-1998) Director, Women's Studies Program
1999-presentProfessor of Anthropology and International Affairs and Associate Dean, The Elliott School (1999-2002. 2009-2012); Founding Director, Culture in Global Affairs (CIGA) Research and Policy Program (2003-present); Founding Director Global Gender Research and Policy Program (2010-2016); Director, Institute of Global and International Studies (2012-2016)
Courses Taught
Undergraduate
Introduction to Cultural Anthropology (Syracuse, Pittsburgh, GW)
Introduction to Cultural Anthropology—Distance Education version (GW)
Practical Anthropology (Syracuse)
"Famine" (Freshman Writing Seminar, Cornell University)
Cultures of India
World Hunger (Freshman Seminar, University of Pittsburgh)
The Human Lifecycle (co-taught with biological anthropologist)
Population and Culture (Undergraduate Majors Seminar, Pittsburgh))
The Anthropology of Food (co-taught with archeologist, Pittsburgh)
Health, Illness and Culture (GW)
The Anthropology of Gender (GW)
Graduate
The Anthropology of Development (Syracuse, GW)
Medical Anthropology (Pittsburgh, GW)
Multidisciplinary Seminar in Development (GW/IDS)
Key Variables in Development (GW)
Gender and Sexuality (GW)
Health, Population and Development (GW)
Health and Development in India (GW)
Migration and Mental Health (GW)
Culture, Risk and Security; revised as Culture, Risk and Disasters (GW)
Global Gender Policy (GW)
Food, Culture, and Globalization (GW), new course
Publications--Books
1981The Endangered Sex: Neglect of Female Children in Rural North India (Ithaca: Cornell University Press)
[re-published with a new chapter, "The Girl Child in India in the Year 2000," pp. 197-217, Oxford
University Press, 1997].
1987(with Robert N. Kearney) Internal Migration and Its Social Consequences in Sri Lanka (Boulder, CO:
Westview Press).
1993(editor) Sex and Gender Hierarchies (New York: Cambridge University Press); chapter 1, "The Anthropology of Sex and Gender Hierarchies" (pp. 3-31).
1998(co-editor with Alf Hiltebeitel) Hair: Its Power and Meaning in Asian Cultures (Albany: SUNY
Press);chapter, "The Disappearance of the Oiled Braid: Indian Adolescent Female Hairstyles in North
America," pp. 259-280, and "Afterword: Hair Power," pp. 281-286.
Publications—Textbooks
Cultural Anthropology (Pearson).
19981st edition
20012nd edition
2004 3rd edition
20074th edition
20095th edition
20106th edition
20127th edition
20168th edition
2008 Cultural Anthropology in a Globalizing World, 1st edition (briefer version of Cultural Anthropology)
2010 2nd edition
20113rd edition
20164th edition
Cultural Anthropology, Canadianized edition, (Toronto: Pearson)
20001st edition
20032nd edition
20063rd edition
20084th edition
Anthropology (four field textbook) (Prentice-Hall/Pearson)
2005Anthropology: The Study of Humanity, with Bernard Wood (Boston: Allyn & Bacon)
20082nd edition
Publications--Editorial Contribution
1983Co-editor (with Roy Bahl), Local Government Finance in the Third World: A Case Study of the
Philippines (Boulder: Westview Press).
2008 Series editor, Anthropology Works, 1st volume: Glynn Cochrane, Festival Elephants and the Myth of Global Poverty (Boston: Pearson).
2009Guest Editor, special issue of the journal, Heritage Management, on "Cultural Heritage and the Work of Anthropology,"spring issue; introductory essay, Heritage Management Inside Out and Upside Down: Questioning Top-Down and Outside Approaches, 5-9.
2015Section Editor, 65entries on Contemporary Cultural Concerns for International Encyclopedia of the Social and Behavioral Sciences, 2nd edition (IESBS 2e). Each entry is approximately 5,000 words. I chose the topics and authors and did substantial editorial work with the authors. IESBS 2e won the PROSE Award (American Publishers Awards for Professional and Scholarly Excellence) in two categories: Excellence in Reference Works, and Multivolume Reference – Humanities and Social Sciences.
Publication in Preparation—Editorial Contribution
Socio-cultural Anthropology: Critical and Primary Sources; four-volume collection of 100 previously published articles and chapters with an overview at the beginning of each volume; under contract with Bloomsbury Press
Publications--Articles in Refereed Journals
1980Cultural Meanings of a North/South Model of Female Juvenile Mortality in Rural India, Eastern
Anthropologist 33(1):19-39.
1980Female Neglect and the Costs of Marriage in Rural India, Contributions to Indian Sociology 14(1):95-
129.
1982Female Labor Participation and Female Seclusion in Rural India, Economic Development and Cultural
Change 30(4):777-794.
1983(with Robert N. Kearney) Sex-Differential Patterns of Internal Migration in Sri Lanka, Peasant Studies
10(4):224-250.
1984Daughter Neglect, Women's Work and Kinship: Pakistan and Bangladesh Compared, Medical
Anthropology 8(2):109-126.
1985(with Robert N. Kearney) The Spiral of Suicide and Social Change in Sri Lanka, Journal of Asian Studies
48(1):81-101 [reprinted 1986 in Marga 8(3):1-33, Journal of the Marga Institute, Colombo, Sri Lanka].
1985(with James A. Wozny) Land Tenure Patterns in Bangladesh: Implications for Revenue and
Distributional Effects of Changes in Land Taxation, Journal of Developing Areas 19(4):459-481.
1986(with Showkat Hayat Khan) Incorporating Voluntarism into Rural Development in Bangladesh, Third
World Planning Review 8(2):139-152.
1986Health, Fertility, and Society in India: Microstudies and Macrostudies [invited review article], Journal of
Asian Studies 46(1):1027-1036.
1988(with Robert N. Kearney) Internal Migration and Suicide in Sri Lanka, Journal of Asian and African
Studies 23(3-4):287-304.
1990(with Richard M. Bird) Indirect Taxation of Low-Income Households in Jamaica, Economic
Development and Cultural Change 37(2):393-409 [reprinted in Taxation in Developing Countries,
Richard M. Bird and Oliver Oldman, eds., 4th edition, Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press,
1990, pp. 425-437].
1995(with Horacio Fabrega Jr.) A Cultural Analysis of Adolescent Psychopathology, Journal of Adolescent
Research 10(2):197-226.
1995(with Horacio Fabrega, Jr.) Adolescent Psychiatry as a Product of Contemporary Anglo-American
Society, Social Science and Medicine 40(7):881-894.
1995 (with Horacio Fabrega, Jr.), Toward a More Comprehensive Medical Anthropology: The Case of
Adolescent Psychopathology, Medical Anthropology Quarterly 9(4):431-461.
1997 Social Class, Gender, and Intrahousehold Food Allocations to Children in South Asia, Social Science and
Medicine 44(11):1685-1695.
2001Female-Selective Abortion in Asia: Patterns, Policies and Debates, American Anthropologist 103(4):1083-1095. [re-published in Comparative Studies in Medical Anthropology, Elizabeth Fischer, ed., New York: Prentice Hall].
Publications--Invited Review Articles and Essays
1983Farming, Families and Sex Roles in Rural India: A Classic Pattern and New Questions Peasant Studies
10(4):224-250.
1986Women, Development, and Anthropology: Focus on Production and Reproduction. Reviews in
Anthropology 13(2):104-114.
1990Opportunity Knocks [lead essay for special issue on "The Female Child"] Indian Journal of Maternal and
Child Health 1(4):101-103.
1992 Toward Critical Population Anthropology. Reviews in Anthropology 21:255-262.
1993On Poverty, Child Survival and Gender: Models and Misperceptions [lead essay] Third World Planning
Review 15(3):iii-viii.
2005Cultural Anthropology Now: Highlights 2004” in SACC Notes II(2):21-24, 34. [SACC Notes is the newsletter of the Society for Anthropology in Community Colleges; this brief article was based on my AAA presentation for the annual SACC panel at the AAA on updates in anthropology’s different fields].
2007Anthropology. International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences. 2nd edition [full-length article]
Publications--Chapters in Books
1987Female Infanticide and Child Neglect in Rural North India. In Nancy Scheper-Hughes, ed., Child
Survival: Anthropological Perspectives on the Treatment and Maltreatment of Children (Boston: D.
Reidel), pp. 95-112 [reprinted 1993, 1997 and 2000 in Caroline B. Brettell and Carolyn F. Sargent,
eds., Gender in Cross-Cultural Perspective, Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice Hall].
1987Social Patterns of Food Expenditures among Low-Income Jamaicans. In Kenneth Leslie and Lloyd
Rankin, eds., Papers and Recommendations of the Workshop on Food and Nutrition Security in the
1980s and Beyond. Kingston: Caribbean Food and Nutrition Institute, pp. 13-33.
1988(with Robert N. Kearney) Women, Social Change, and Suicide in Sri Lanka. In Patricia Whelehan, ed,
Women and Health: Cross Cultural Perspectives (South Hadley, MA: Bergin and Garvey), pp. 110-123.
1989(with Richard M. Bird) Taxation, Pricing, and the Poor in Developing Countries. In Richard M. Bird
and Susan Horton, eds., Public Policy and the Poor in Developing Countries (Toronto: University of
Toronto Press), pp. 49-80.
1989Gender and Low-Income Household Expenditures in Jamaica. In Henry Rutz and Benjamin Orlove, eds., The Social Economy of Consumption (Lanham, MD: University Press of America), pp. 379-398.
1990Son Preference, the Household, and a Public Health Programme in North India. In Neera Desai and
Maithreyi Krishnaraj, eds., Women and the Household in Asia (Newbury Park, CA: Sage Publications),
pp. 191-208.
1992Wife-Beating in India: Variations on a Theme. In Dorothy Counts, Judith Brown, and Jacquelyn
Campbell, eds., Sanctions and Sanctuary: Cross-Cultural Perspectives on the Beating of Wives (Boulder, CO: Westview Press), pp. 177-189. [re-published, 1999, University of Illinois Press].
1993Unwanted Daughters in North India: Household Priorities and Public Policy. In Hector Correa, ed.,
Unwanted Pregnancies and Public Policy: An International Perspective (New York: Nova Science
Publishers).
1995Precepts and Practices: Researching Identity Formation among Hindu Adolescents in the United States.
In Jacqueline Goodnow and Peggy Miller, eds. New Directions in Adolescent Psychology. San
Francisco: Jossey-Bass.
1995(with Horacio Fabrega, Jr.) Cultural and Historical Aspects of Adolescent Psychopathology. In Michael
Hersen and Vincent van Hasselt, eds. Handbook of Adolescent Psychopathology: A Guide to Diagnosis
and Treatment. pp. 3-68. New York: Lexington Books.
1997Population, Health and Development in South Asia: Policy Debates, Directions and Dilemmas. In C.
Steven LaRue, Lloyd I. Rudolph, and Susanne Hoeber Rudolph, eds, The India Handbook. Regional
Handbooks of Economic Development. pp. 143-157. Chicago: Fitzroy-Dearborn.
Publications--Short Articles
1982Women in the Public Domain: Third World Discoveries and Policy Implications, Women's Studies
Quarterly: International Supplements 1:6-9
1984Local Social Organizations and Local Public Finance in the Third World, Journal of Voluntary Action
Research 13(4):49-59.
1984Benefit Financing in Bangladesh: A Review of the Possibilities for Rural Public Works, Asian Journal of
Public Administration 6(2):178-192.
1985The Unwanted Girls: A Study of Infant Mortality Rates, Manushi: A Journal about Women and Society
[New Delhi] 29:18-20
1985Gender and Infant Death: Thoughts on Latin America in Relation to South Asia [review essay] COSAW
Bulletin 3(3):14-16
1987Female Infanticide, Seminar [New Delhi] 3(3):18-21.
1989Changing Patterns of Juvenile Sex Ratios in Rural India, 1961-1971, Economic and Political Weekly
June 3:1229-1236
1989Women and Development in India. In Helen Tierney, ed., Women's Studies Encyclopedia. Westport,
CT: Greenwood Press
1992(with Sabu George and Rajaratnam Abel) Female Infanticide in Rural South India, Economic and
Political Weekly May 30:1153-1156.
1994A Case of Missing Persons: Cultural Relativism and Female Infanticide, AnthroNotes [Washington, DC: Smithsonian Institution]:1-8.
1995Population Ethics: Religious Traditions in Hinduism, Encyclopedia of Bioethics 4: 1999-2003.
2001Review essay of three ethnographies on gender in India, American Anthropologist 102:929-931.
2001Cultural Anthropology, International Affairs, and the Future, International Affairs Review 11:105-108.
2007From a Grain of Rice to the World. In Proceedings of 13th Annual Hahn Moo-Sook Colloquium in the Korean Humanities, edited by Young-Key Renaud, R. Richard Grinker and Kirk Larsen. Washington, DC: The Sigur Center for Asian Studies, Elliott School of International Affairs, George Washington University.
2009Sex-Selective Abortion in Asia: one-page abstract of my 2001 article published in the American Anthropologist, in Women's Human Rights: The International and Comparative Law Casebook, edited by Susan Deller Ross. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press.
2015Invited op-ed, “Understanding Hair Messages,” The Indian Express.
Publications--Book Reviews
South Asia Library Notes and Queries, 1981/1982
Journal of Developing Areas, 1982
Journal of Asian Studies, 1983
International Journal of Comparative Sociology, 1983
Third World Planning Review, 1984
Comparative Sociology, 1985
Journal of Regional Science, 1986
South Asia in Review, 1991
Political Science Quarterly, 1991
Sociology of Religion, 1993
Journal of Asian Studies, 1997
American Journal of Human Biology, 1999
American Ethnologist, 2000
Pacific Affairs, 2000
Journal of the History of Sexuality, 2000
Pacific Affairs, 2011
Social Media
2009-Founder and editor, anthropologyworks blog (5,000 readers per month) including weakly review of anthropology in the news; Twitter (18,000 followers),Facebook; average 15,000 views per month
2011- 2016
Founder and editor, globalgendercurrent blog (800 readers per month), Twitter (1500 followers), Facebook views average 1,000 per month.
Publications--Reports, Monographs and Working Papers
1980Local Social Organizations and Local Project Capacity. Syracuse: The Maxwell School, Local Revenue
Administration Project.
1982(with Richard M. Joseph) Local Public Finance: A Directory of Experts. Metropolitan Studies Program
Monograph #7. Syracuse: The Maxwell School, Syracuse University.
1983(with James A. Wozny) The Bangladesh Land Occupancy Survey of 1978 and Its Relevance to the Land
Development Tax. Metropolitan Studies Program Occasional Paper #69. Syracuse: The Maxwell School, Syracuse University.
1983Son Preference, Daughter Neglect, and Juvenile Sex Ratios: Pakistan and Bangladesh Compared. Women in International Development Working Paper Series #30. East Lansing: Michigan State University.
1983(with Showkat Hayat Khan) Local Voluntarism and Local Public Finance in Rural Bangladesh. Zilla
Roads Project Report #6. Syracuse: The Maxwell School, Syracuse University.
1984Possibilities of Benefit Charges for Public Works in Bangladesh. Zilla Roads Project Report #11.
Syracuse: The Maxwell School, Syracuse University.
1984(co-editor with Janice Hyde) Women in Asia and Asian Studies. Committee on Women in Asian Studies
Monograph #1. Syracuse: The Maxwell School, Syracuse University, pp. 120; and contributor: Recent
Research on Sex Differentials in Children's Health and Survival in India.
1984(co-editor with Jyotsna Vaid and Janice Hyde) South Asian Women at Home and Abroad: A Guide to